Karpenter

Karpenter (Nov 2021) Kubernetes cluster autoscaling project

• https://karpenter.sh/
• Releases: https://github.com/aws/karpenter/releases

helm repo add karpenter https://charts.karpenter.sh/
helm repo update

helm upgrade --install --namespace karpenter --create-namespace karpenter karpenter/karpenter \
  --version v0.6.3 \
  --set serviceAccount.annotations."eks\.amazonaws\.com/role-arn"=${KARPENTER_IAM_ROLE_ARN} \
  --set clusterName=${CLUSTER_NAME} \
  --set clusterEndpoint=${CLUSTER_ENDPOINT} \
  --set aws.defaultInstanceProfile=KarpenterNodeInstanceProfile-${CLUSTER_NAME} \
  --wait # for the defaulting webhook to install before creating a Provisioner

Logs

• Relaxing soft constrains ...

News

• Apr 2022 Pod Affinity https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/04/amazon-eks-karpenter-v0-9-0-pod-affinity/
• Nov 2021 https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-karpenter-v0-5/
• https://aws.github.io/aws-eks-best-practices/karpenter/

Activities

• Read htps://karpenter.sh/preview/troubleshooting/
• Read about Kubernetes scheduler and Karpenter https://github.com/aws/karpenter/issues/1528

Related

• Kubernetes Autoscaler
• Escalator
• EKS Best Practices Guides https://aws.github.io/aws-eks-best-practices/karpenter/
• KarpenterNode IAM Role
• https://registry.terraform.io/modules/terraform-aws-modules/eks/aws/latest/examples/karpenter
• karpenter.sh/capacity-type
• kubectl logs -f -n karpenter $(kubectl get pods -n karpenter -l karpenter=controller -o name)
• kind: Provisioner
• Kubernetes PodDisruptionBudget (PDB)

kubectl get all -n karpenter
TopologyKey:

Kubernetes scheduler
Kubernetes Pod Topology Spread Constraints

See also

• Karpenter, karpenter.sh, provisioners.karpenter.sh, Karpenter releases, best practices, karpenter.sh/capacity-type, karpenter.sh/discovery, kind: Provisioner, kind: AWSNodeTemplate, kubectl provisioner, TopologyKey, FailedDraining, Evict, DisruptionBlocked, Karpenter logs, controller., ttlSecondsUntilExpired, KEDA, NodePools, Kind: NodePool, Workload Consolidation, Disruption controls
• Kubernetes autoscaling, HPA, VPA, Karpenter, Kubernetes Autoscaler, kubectl autoscale, Kubernetes Metrics Server (KMS)

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-karpenter-an-open-source-high-performance-kubernetes-cluster-autoscaler/